diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index 87b25543d7d145fb90b8f986c9f9f124547430b4..2b59201b955ca533bcb10a251df07ff2d7c549d2 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -1982,7 +1982,12 @@ struct btrfs_root *open_ctree(struct super_block *sb,
 
 	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
 		ret = btrfs_recover_relocation(tree_root);
-		BUG_ON(ret);
+		if (ret < 0) {
+			printk(KERN_WARNING
+			       "btrfs: failed to recover relocation\n");
+			err = -EINVAL;
+			goto fail_trans_kthread;
+		}
 	}
 
 	location.objectid = BTRFS_FS_TREE_OBJECTID;
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
index ed3e4a2ec2c833b3aac4faf6143c4c3f22584b3e..ab7ab53187452aa7794bfcdfb5596385d3cc77b2 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
@@ -3764,7 +3764,8 @@ int btrfs_recover_relocation(struct btrfs_root *root)
 				       BTRFS_DATA_RELOC_TREE_OBJECTID);
 		if (IS_ERR(fs_root))
 			err = PTR_ERR(fs_root);
-		btrfs_orphan_cleanup(fs_root);
+		else
+			btrfs_orphan_cleanup(fs_root);
 	}
 	return err;
 }